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Cracking Knuckles Sound Effect

Human & Voices5sMP3 · WAV · OGG46K YouTube viewsFree
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About this sound

Alright, time to get serious.

That's somebody cracking their knuckles, a few short pops in about 5 seconds. Each one's a quick dry snap with long quiet gaps between. It's pretty quiet and sounds natural, not overdone. There's almost a second of silence at the start, so trim it if you're lining it up.

Editing notes

Measured from this file.

  • There's 0.91 s of quiet before the sound starts. Trim that off if it has to land right on a cut, a hit or a button press.
  • It's done by 3.38 s. The last 1.34 s of the file is pretty much silence, so you can cut it.
  • It peaks at +0.1 dBTP, which is over full scale. Turn it down about 2 dB or put a limiter on it before you push it up in a mix.
  • It's −26.5 LUFS, about 8 dB quieter than the typical sound here (−18.2 LUFS). So you'll probably need to turn it up when you swap it in.

Sound details

Length
5s
Original file
MP3 · 2 identical channels · 48 kHz · 167 kbps
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Loudness
-26 LUFS (quiet)
Channels
mono sound in a stereo file (both channels identical)
True peak
+0.1 dBTP
YouTube views
45,825

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